You can specify the shard in core.properties ie: core.properties: name=collection2 shard=shard2
Did this solve it ? From, Thomas Egense On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:00 AM, "Markus.Mirsberger" < > markus.mirsber...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > How can I fix the shardId used at one server when I create a collection? > (Im using the solrj collections api to create collections) > > You can't do it with the collections API currently. If you want to control > the shard names explicitly, you have to use the CoreAdmin API to create > each core - that lets you set the shard id. > > - Mark